Paul and Barnabas stayed at Antioch with the disciples for a long time.
Paul and Barnabas stayed at Antioch with the disciples for a long time. (ACT 14:28) After that, Paul, as it appears, preached the gospel even to Illyricum to those who never heard it before. (ROM 15:19-20) He suffered those things there which he mentioned in his second epistle to the Corinthians. (2CO 11:24-26) He mentioned that he had been whipped with rods at Philippi and twice elsewhere by the Gentiles. Five times he received 39 stripes from the Jews. He had been shipwrecked three times and was all night in the deep. We find that five years elapsed between the return of Paul and Barnabas to Antioch and their going to the council at Jerusalem. We cannot place these things better anywhere else than in so large a vacuum and silence in the history of the church.